· Private foundation
George and Ruth Bradford Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k43 grants · $188k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $158k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLOWSHARES | $20,500 |
| HOSPICE OF UKIAH | $17,000 |
| LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK | $13,000 |
| WILLITS FOOD BANK | $13,000 |
| AV COMMUNITY SERVICES DISTRICT | $12,000 |
| SPACE | $11,000 |
| REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK | $11,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF UKIAH | $10,000 |
| UKIAH SENIOR CENTER | $10,000 |
| MENDOCINO COUNTY FARM BUREAU | $10,000 |
| UC DAVIS ADVANCEMENT SERVICES | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| HOWARD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,000 |
| FORD STREET PROJECTUKIAH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $8,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $164k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
79 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2025, 52 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HOHOSPICE OF UKIAH INC9× · 2017–2025 · $155k · revenue +38%
- PPPLOWSHARES PEACE & JUSTICE CENTER7× · 2018–2024 · $112k · revenue +49%
- MCMENDOCINO COUNTY FARM BUREAU9× · 2017–2025 · $107k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- PVPOTTER VALLEY YOUTH COMMUNITY CENone grant, 2020 · $20k
- UDUC DAVISone grant, 2018 · $10k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CA AT DAVISone grant, 2017 · $10k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To operate a community library for information retrieval and enjoyment by the general public.
Redwood Coast Seniors Inc. operates a senior center providing meals, transportation, day care, activities and support services that contribute to optimal wellness and healthy aging for all seniors on the Mendocino North Coast.
The Healy Senior Center supports independent, meaningful, dignified lives for older adults of Southern Humboldt County, CA through social interaction, recreation, Senior Dining and Home Delivered Meals, health and care maintenance,…
Redwoods Rural Health Center is a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) that provides primary, preventative healthcare services to all people without regard to social or economic status.
Mendocino Coast Clinics
Providing physical, emotional, practical and spiritual support for people and families who are dealing with life-threatening illness, the dying process, death and or bereavement of a loved one.
To conserve lands for recreational, educational, ecological, agricultural, scenic & open space opportunities. We develop & maintain public access ways & trails to the ocean, rivers & other natural or scenic features along coastal Mendocino…
The Community Center of Mendocino's main function is to provide after school enrichment programs for grade school children. Secondary function is to provide recreation.
To deliver comprehensive health and human service programs that improve the health and well-being of under-served california residents.
We provided free healthy food to low-income families and individuals in need.
Activities within trinity, humboldt, del norte county, siskiyou and mendocino counties and to recruit and administer financial capital for such purposes.
Homes for Sonoma is a nonprofit developer creating quality workforce housing options that support safe and sustainable community, and finds efficient, scalable solutions to address the housing crisis in Sonoma County and throughout…
How this is measured
51 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 51 of the 147 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds HOSPICE OF UKIAH INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MENDOCINO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PLOWSHARES PEACE & JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds MENDOCINO COUNTY FARM BUREAU ↗
- Who funds UKIAH SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON VALLEY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MENDOCINO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MENDOCINO COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE COUNTY SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds LAKE PILLSBURY FIREFIGHTERS ASSOC ↗
- Who funds UKIAH VALLEY CULTURAL & REC CENTER ↗
- Who funds UKIAH VALLEY CHRISTMAS EFFORT ↗
- Who funds Court Appointed Special Advocates of Mendocino County ↗
- Who funds Anderson Valley ElderHome ↗
- Who funds Anderson Valley Housing Association Inc ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Mendocino County · Tr Eriksen Trust Fund Co Shelly a Smith Trustee · East Bay Community Foundation · Tarbell Family Foundation · Ukiah Adventist Hospital · Sonoma County Community Foundation · Mendocino Coast Healthcare Foundation · Cleo Foundation · Sutter Bay Hospitals · California Fire Foundation · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Marin Community Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization George and Ruth Bradford Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from George and Ruth Bradford Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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